Quotes About Duty

The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.

Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.

The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.

the worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.

Never confuse fighting for one's government with fighting for one's country.

I might wish our Windthorn men were less obsessed with war, but I have to admit it keeps them busy.

If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.

Soldiers are not trained for retire

Come forth, Paladins!Fulfill your destiny!

WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

Damn the wars but bless the soldier.

An infantryman's job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc's job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, "Not today.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

We give up the fort when there's not a man left to defend it.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.